President Donald Trump quietly announced his intent to make three appointments to the task force on Wednesday that he formed in May to look into claims of fraudulent voting in the 2016 election.

Until now, the commission has consisted of seven people, including the vice president and the Kansas secretary of state.

The White House had made no additional announcements about the task force that Democrats have called a 'sham' or its work since it was established on May 11, other than Trump's appointments.

He said Wednesday that he was adding a Republican, a Democrat and a county clerk to the commission.

A White House spokesperson did not immediately respond to DailyMail.com's request for information about the task force or its progress.

President Donald Trump quietly announced his intent to make three appointments to the task force on Wednesday that he formed in May to look into claims of fraudulent voting in the 2016 election

A statement sent out by the White House on Wednesday night on personnel included three people at the end that it said the president would nominate to serve on his election integrity task force - Luis Borunda of Maryland, David K. Dunn of Arkansas and Mark Rhodes of West Virginia.

Borunda, a Republican, is the Maryland deputy secretary of state and the former chairman of the Maryland Hispanic Business Conference. He founded an organization for Hispanic high students that promotes entrepreneurship and assists with higher education goals.

Dunn is a former Arkansas legislator who leads a government relations and public affairs firm. Term limited, the Democratic lawmaker retired from public service at the end of 2010. His background is in industrial development and taxation, according to the bio on his firm's website.

The third appointee, Rhodes, is a former corrections officer who's served as Wood County Arkansas' county clerk since 2005.

His West Virginia county has one of the highest rates of online voter registrations in the state. Local news reports have detailed the work he's done with the West Virginia secretary of state to clean up his county's voter roles.

'We try to verify every address and then, if we do not see the person, we also flag that they have to show ID at the first time that they go vote,' he told a local news outlet just before the last election.

A statement sent out by the White House on Wednesday night on personnel included three people at the end that it said the president would nominate to serve on his election integrity task force - Luis Borunda of Maryland, (left) David K. Dunn of Arkansas (center) and Mark Rhodes of West Virginia (right)

Trump's executive order allows for up to 15 appointments to the commission.

He previously appointed Connie Lawson, Secretary of State of Indiana, Bill Gardner, Secretary of State of New Hampshire, Matthew Dunlap, Secretary of State of Maine, Ken Blackwell, Former Secretary of State of Ohio and Christy McCormick, Commissioner, Election Assistance Commission, to the task force.

The text of the directive calls for a selection that includes 'individuals with knowledge and experience in elections, election management, election fraud detection, and voter integrity efforts, and any other individuals with knowledge or experience that the President determines to be of value to the Commission.'

It gives the vice president the authority to deputize one of the members of the commission, although Kris Kobach, the Kansas secretary of state, was already awarded the job.

Kobach said in a May 14 interview that the commission would be looking at voting irregularities, allegations of fraud and registration issues in all 50 states.

'So what we'll be doing is for the first time in our country's history, we'll be gathering data from all 50 states and we'll be using the federal government's databases which can been very valuable,' he said on Fox News.

The Republican official, who said last week that he was mounting a bid for governor, has a polarizing history in politics. He's the author of Arizona's strict anti-illegal immigration law and a backer of voter ID requirements Democrats say are inherently discriminatory.

Kobach told Fox that identity theft is a problem but he is most concerned about double voting.

'We'll try to get some numbers, some actual statistics because you know, this debate is so contentious but often times the debate doesn't have enough facts in the - in the debate and we're going to be providing those facts, putting them on the table and letting the people decide in going where the facts take us,' he stated.

In the interview, Kobach said the commission hopes to be done with its work in a year, even though it has two years to present its findings.

'If for some reason we have to go later, we can. But our hope is one year,' Kobach said then.

Kris Kobach, the Kansas Secretary of State said in a May 14 interview that the commission would be looking at voting irregularities, allegations of fraud and registration issues in all 50 states 'for the first time in our country's history'

Trump's executive order specifically directs the commission to study voter registration and voting processes used in federal elections and and present a report to the president that identifies practices that will 'enhance the American people's confidence in the integrity of the voting processes used in Federal elections.'

The committee is also supposed to assess 'vulnerabilities in voting systems and practices used for Federal elections that could lead to improper voter registrations and improper voting, including fraudulent voter registrations and fraudulent voting.'

Trump had repeatedly claimed prior to the creation of the task force, which he teased for months with no action, that fraudulent ballots were cast in the last election and they affected the outcome.

'In addition to winning the Electoral College in a landslide, I won the popular vote if you deduct the millions of people who voted illegally,' he said in November.

Trump appeared to be getting his information from a Texas-based group that claimed it had proof that 3 million ballots were illegally cast in the 2016 election.

VoteStand's Gregg Phillips said in a January appearance on CNN that his group was working to verify the information and it would present its findings when the audit was finished.

'We're talking about accusing three million people of multiple felonies....If we jumped out there with, with just our initial analysis rather than refining it and quality checking it, we'd be out here with, you know potentially some people that aren't committing felonies of felonies,' he told CNN's Chris Cuomo.

The president tweeted about Phillips' appearance, giving the effort a boost.

'Look forward to seeing final results of VoteStand. Gregg Phillips and crew say at least 3,000,000 votes were illegal. We must do better!' Trump said on Twitter.

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The Texas Tribune said yesterday that Phillips' efforts had stalled, due to a lack of funding for the project, and the organization he was working with, True the Vote, had decided to scale down its effort.

'Next steps up are for us to sort of pull back on the national audit, and focus on targeted investigations,' True the Vote founder Catherine Engelbrecht said in a video message to supporters.

In response to a request from the Texas Tribune on Engelbrecht's announcement, a White House spokeswoman said Trump's election integrity commission would 'assess the situation.'

'President Trump has expressed concerns regarding possible voter fraud and he wants to ensure that the integrity of all elections, which are the cornerstone of our democracy, is preserved,' the spokeswoman said.

Trump won the Electoral College but lost the popular vote by millions of ballots to Hillary Clinton. To date, his allegations of voter fraud have not been proven.

Democrats have charged that the formation of the voter fraud commission was intended as a diverson from the president's firing of FBI director James Comey.

'President Trump’s election integrity commission is a sham and an attempt to distract from the both the Russian attack on the 2016 presidential election and blowback the White House is receiving for firing FBI Director Comey,' Karen Hobert Flynn, president of Common Cause, said in a statement on the day the commission was created.

The White House was under heavy scrutiny at the time for its changing story on the reasons for which the law enforcement official was fired.

'Just two days after the ouster of former-FBI Director James Comey and amid growing scrutiny and questions into the Trump campaign’s connection with Russia, President Trump is trying to divert attention from the ongoing FBI investigation by returning to his baseless allegations of millions of cases of voter fraud in the 2016 presidential election,' Democratic Sen. Dick Durbin said in a May statement.

Durbin endorsed the notion of a commission that reviews allegations of fraud -President Trump’s 'unfounded accusations of widespread voter fraud' that is.

He said the an independent commission should also probe 'Republican efforts to suppress turnout with burdensome voting restrictions, and Russia’s interference in our election and reports of contact between the Trump campaign and the Russian government.'

House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi similarly claimed the Trump task force 'is clearly intended to accelerate the vile voter suppression efforts in states across the nation.'

'The integrity of our elections has been undermined because of the disenfranchisement of American citizens, not the bigoted delusions of widespread voter fraud,' she said. 'If President Trump cannot believe that the majority of Americans voted against him, he should review his own conduct instead of trying to steal the vote from millions of citizens.'